I may be the best person to explain to you as I heard this from urban legend in Koufu
Many years ago, Old Goh tried to use his personal connection in Marine Parade to bring Younger Goh into PAP circle.️
However, this was flatly rejected by Madam Kwa who was the chief to assess moral characters of all PAP candidates.
I guess Madam Kwa might knew well that Young Goh could be a bended bamboo and not a straight gentleman
You just hit the nail on its head - Goh is not in the magic circle. A jail term therefore awaits him.
Sometimes you have to visualize yourself as a judge and see things from the perspective of the judge. If there was to be any "give chance", the most difficult part for the judge would be writing a discourse on the grounds of judgment. The judgment will be read and analyzed by law students in NUS and SMU for decades to come, and students will fire questions at the Associate Professors. Even a corrupt judge wants face, and this is the reason "give chance" must start at the prosecutorial stage as the law gives a carte blanche to the prosecution to decide on the charges to be preferred, otherwise known as prosecutorial discretion.
Most victims would not even be aware of the availability of corresponding charges in the Penal Code which may prescribe a more serious penalty than the one that was preferred against the accused, until the sentence was pronounced at the end of the trial. Look no further than the father whose daughter's CB was stretched many times by a MediaCorp iandao.
In OBS case, when the prosecution decided to charge the Olan ahead of OBS while waited for the case of the Olan to finally complete before proceeding to charge OBS, you know something was amiss. In any normal situation, to convict the Olan of receiving a bribe in the context of corruption and not just "obtaining gratification as a public servant," OBS being the "briber" would have been the star witness and should have been inducted as a prosecution witness for the the Olan's case, just as Cecilia did during the trial of the CNB chief.
Well, the CNB chief managed to get away because there was room for manoeuver in suggesting that the BJ given at multiple venues in Singapore could be attributed to love and romance (正所謂情之所至), not necessarily a bribe. The relationship between OBS and the Olan was of a different genre altogether. To take a leaf from a certain Goh, both were straight.
During the run up to the Olan's case, there was no suggestion during the PTCs that OBS would be the witness for the prosecution. Instead, the prosecution decided to drop the corruption charges because of a familiar animal called litigation risk. However, nobody explained what the risk was. Again, to take a leaf from another Goh, in any litigation in Singapore I worry if there is no litigation risk. It means the outcome is decided even before the trial begins - if there is no litigation risk.
Goh Junior understands the power of prosecutorial discretion, and this is the reason the number of PTCs has broken the Guinness World Records. Once the matter is fully in the hands of the Court, it's the judge who has to worry about writing the grounds of judgment. And now that 2 of the 4 accomplices have pleaded guilty and begun serving their respective jail sentences, to a large extent the hands of both the prosecution and the judge are tied.
It would be next to impossible to let him go without even a nominal jail term, and without the judge himself becoming the laughingstock of the legal fraternity.
這樣的答覆，文雄滿意嗎？
Sometimes you have to visualize yourself as a judge and see things from the perspective of the judge. If there was to be any "give chance", the most difficult part for the judge would be writing a discourse on the grounds of judgment. The judgment will be read and analyzed by law students in NUS and SMU for decades to come, and students will fire questions at the Associate Professors. Even a corrupt judge wants face, and this is the reason "give chance" must start at the prosecutorial stage as the law gives a carte blanche to the prosecution to decide on the charges to be preferred, otherwise known as prosecutorial discretion.
Most victims would not even be aware of the availability of corresponding charges in the Penal Code which may prescribe a more serious penalty than the one that was preferred against the accused, until the sentence was pronounced at the end of the trial. Look no further than the father whose daughter's CB was stretched many times by a MediaCorp iandao.
In OBS case, when the prosecution decided to charge the Olan ahead of OBS while waited for the case of the Olan to finally complete before proceeding to charge OBS, you know something was amiss. In any normal situation, to convict the Olan of receiving a bribe in the context of corruption and not just "obtaining gratification as a public servant," OBS being the "briber" would have been the star witness and should have been inducted as a prosecution witness for the the Olan's case, just as Cecilia did during the trial of the CNB chief.
Well, the CNB chief managed to get away because there was room for manoeuver in suggesting that the BJ given at multiple venues in Singapore could be attributed to love and romance (正所謂情之所至), not necessarily a bribe. The relationship between OBS and the Olan was of a different genre altogether. To take a leaf from a certain Goh, both were straight.
During the run up to the Olan's case, there was no suggestion during the PTCs that OBS would be the witness for the prosecution. Instead, the prosecution decided to drop the corruption charges because of a familiar animal called litigation risk. However, nobody explained what the risk was. Again, to take a leaf from another Goh, in any litigation in Singapore I worry if there is no litigation risk. It means the outcome is decided even before the trial begins - if there is no litigation risk.
Goh Junior understands the power of prosecutorial discretion, and this is the reason the number of PTCs has broken the Guinness World Records. Once the matter is fully in the hands of the Court, it's the judge who has to worry about writing the grounds of judgment. And now that 2 of the 4 accomplices have pleaded guilty and begun serving their respective jail sentences, to a large extent the hands of both the prosecution and the judge are tied.
It would be next to impossible to let him go without even a nominal jail term, and without the judge himself becoming the laughingstock of the legal fraternity.
這樣的答覆，文雄滿意嗎？
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